Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

Our search of a better understanding of appearance have reached some great milestones this year. First, our studies have shown that Bidirectional Reflection Distribution Functions (BRDFs) exhibits some meaningful statistics [21] . They help designing intuitively MatCaps (a shorthand for "Material Capture") that are often used by artists as a simple and efficient way to design appearance [23] . Our studies have also shown that current BRDF models are limited [17] . We are exploring new models and parameterizations [20] , [24] . It is worth noting that we are integrating all these researches into a common library named ALTA (http://alta.gforge.inria.fr/ ).

Awards

"Notable article in computing in 2014", from ACM ThinkLoud Computing Reviews http://www.computingreviews.com/recommend/bestof/notableitems.cfm?bestYear=2014 for our article on The Revealing Flashlight [7] .